Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Review: The Body - A Guide for Occupants

›
I've bounced of a number of other Bill Bryson books before, so I approached The Body with low expectations. To my surprise I found myse...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Review: Superior Spider-Man

›
I picked up Superior Spider-Man from Comixology Unlimited after reading the first issue, which posted a heck of a fun premise: Doctor Octop...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Review: Zero G

›
Zero G is an Audible-exclusive radio play written by Dan Wells. It's clearly intended for a younger audience (the protagonist is 10), bu...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Review: Specialized BG Sport Full Finger Gloves

›
I'd poked holes through every finger of my old long-fingered gloves, Specialized BG gloves have always fitted me quite well, though they...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Review: Judge Dredd Year One

›
Judge Dredd is pretty much of relevance only to those who grew up in the English colonies, with regular access to the weekly newsprint comic...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Reread: Saga of the Swamp Thing Books 2-6

›
After reading Swamp Thing Vol 1, I realized that I'd never actually read the entire Alan Moore run of the Swamp Thing in one go, so I s...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Review: What Doesn't Kill Us

›
What Doesn't Kill Us  suffers from a fundamental problem with science as explained by English majors, which is that the plural of anecdo...
Friday, January 17, 2020

Review: Did you just eat that?

›
You've probably heard of the 5-second rule, or the story the electric hand dryers spew germs all over the bathroom. Did you just eat tha...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Reread: Saga of the Swamp Thing Book 1

›
The thing with reading a lot of comic books is that after a while you realize that none of them can hold a candle to Alan Moore's work, ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Review: The True Queen

›
The True Queen is a sequel to Sorceror to the Crown. The events in this novel take place after the events of Zen Cho's earlier novel, b...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Review: Symphony in C

›
Symphony in C is Robert Hazen's book about everybody's favorite element, Carbon.  Far from a dry recounting of its properties, Haze...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Review: Sorcerer to the Crown

›
Sorcerer to the Crown is a mash up of Jane Austen with a dash of the Napoleonic wars. The setting is a world in which magic exists, and tha...
Friday, January 03, 2020

Review: Talking to Strangers

›
Talking to Strangers is Malcolm Gladwell's book about making sense of other people, and why we're so easily fooled. Written in his ...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

Review: Permanent Record

›
Permanent Record is Edward Snowden' s account of his career with the CIA and NSA as an independent contractor/employee and how he came ...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Review: Netflix's The Witcher

›
I came to the Netflix series having read a number of the books and played The Witcher 3 all the way to the end.  The series essentially ada...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

Review: Noric Flash Waterproof Camera Float

›
The biggest problem with a waterproof camera is that you want it to float when you're snorkeling and you want it to be neutrally buoyant...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Review: Lifespan - Why We Age

›
David Sinclair comes with impeccable credentials: Harvard Medical School, and editor of the journal on Aging. His book, Lifespan , is a book...
Friday, December 20, 2019

Review: Green Lantern - No Fear

›
I'm old enough to remember that Hal Jordan was the definitive silver-age Green Lantern. Of course, then there were Guy Gardner and other...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

Review: Hellboy Seeds of Destruction

›
The entire Hellboy collection is free on Comixology, so while I had a free trial (that I have every intention of cancelling), I decided to ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Review: Alan Moore's Top Ten

›
I was reflecting on how none of the comic books I'd read recently came up to anywhere near Alan Moore's old work, and decided to che...